From Clutch Magazine: Kasi Lemmons, director of Talk to Me starring Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejoifor, recently signed on to bring Zadie Smith’s award-winning novel On Beauty to the big screen.

The book centers around a married interracial couple — a white Englishman and his black American wife — whose marriage is on the verge of falling apart. He is an art scholar who can’t manage to finish a manuscript on his work, and she no longer resembles her sexy, activist self. Deadline described the book as an “academic comedy of manners, focusing on the story of two families with different but increasingly intertwined lives, race and sexual politics,” so the film has the potential to be quite interesting.

Lemmons, is also in the process of adapting Langston Hughes’ gospel song play, Black Nativity. According to an interview Lemmons gave to The Wip, the project is about “a kid from Baltimore whose mother has to send him to live with her estranged parents. He’s dealing with people he didn’t know including his grandmother who is a preacher; he falls in a deep sleep at church and dreams of the black nativity.” And if you had any doubts, Lemmons assures fans, “It’s going to be dope.”